Tag: Christmas

Well Hallelujah.

Not sure where this optimistic angel came from but she’s on my bookshelf.

Felt Just Like Christmas

[Found in here.]

Vintage Christmas Cheesecake

All images found on the Pinternest. Click for larger image.

Holiday Trains

The Duke Energy Trains include more than 300 rail cars and 60 locomotives steaming through a custom-made city that features local landmarks Union Terminal, Paul Brown Stadium and the Roebling Bridge. The train show debuted in 1946 and historic train layouts are also on display.

The Duke Energy Holiday Trains is on view at the Cincinnati Museum Center through Jan. 3, 2021.

[Image & story here. More here.]

 

Christmas in Space

[Images found scattered around the Pinternest. Click imagef for larger view.]

Saturday Matinee Christmas – Jason D. Williams, The Petersens, and Leon Redbone w/ Ken Peplowski & Dr. John

Jason D. Williams is a madman on the ivories, and the video was posted on the Utoobage just a few days ago.

The Petersens‘ Sleigh Ride [2:31] is a fun take on one of my favorites.

“Listen to how perfect this is…
The Doctor, Leon, and the heir to Benny Goodman…”
Leon Redbone, Dr. John and Ken Peplowski make a great trio, and Leon spelled backwards is, well, you know.

Have a great pre-holiday weekend, be back here tomorrow for some last minute shopping.

The .Gif Friday Post No. 711 – Dilloballs, Mash Mess & A Big Whoop

[h/t Rightymouse for the Dilloballs, Sour Mash Dump from here, found Whoopi’s Christmas igno-rant accidentally.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 710 – Christmas Fun

All .gifs by Polish artist Kajetan Obarski.

[Found here, here and here.]

Wilder Mann – Pagan Christmastime monsters

“In 2010 the French photographer began traveling to rural farming villages in over a dozen European countries to document people, pictured mostly alone, out in the wilderness, wearing homemade costumes used in celebratory events marking the solstices, the harvest and coming of winter—calendar dates that, after millennia and the ‘civilizing’ of Pagan populations, eventually mutated into Christmas and Easter. The costumes referencing human/animal hybrids are cobbled-together, yet visually astounding.”
Traditional European Christmastime monsters photographed by Charles Fréger. Other images found here, caption from here.

Die Schnabelperchten

12 drummers drumming won’t stop them.

With a gentle “Ga Ga Ga”, they make their way from house to house, checking that homes have had the appropriate upkeep, whether the floor has been properly swept and every corner has been dusted. Heaven forbid you don’t clean your house correctly – the ancient version of the legend says that, if that’s the case, the Schnabelperchten will slice open your stomach with a long pair of shears and empty all of the rubbish inside!

Let it be said, however, that the Schnabelperchten are generally welcome guests – especially since they bring happiness and blessings for the coming year.

Schnabelperchten (more than one beaked Perchta) roam around the Alpine region of Austria in midwinter, appearing on or before the eve of the Twelfth Night, the last of the “Twelve Days” of Christmas, the “Haunted Season.”

[h/t Mme. Jujujive. Top image and caption found here. More Perchta lore here and here.]

Update: Just spotted this, and I wasn’t even looking for it.